News releases: 2018 Division III football season

Elmhurst College has named Jeff McDonald as its new head football coach. McDonald, who has spent the past two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Illinois Wesleyan University, becomes the 20th head coach in Elmhurst history.

After 12 dedicated years as Husson's head football coach, Gabby Price announced that he would be stepping down from his position with the program on Tuesday morning. Price was the program's head coach from 2002-2008 and returned in 2013.

Following a season in which it won 10 games, captured its second straight Liberty League title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) football team concludes ranked 11th in the final D3football.com Poll and 12th in the last American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Poll.

SUNY Cortland senior linebacker Kyle Richard has been selected as the nation’s 2018 Orange Bowl Courage Award recipient, becoming the first Division III honoree since the award was created in 2002 to annually recognize a college football player who has displayed bravery on or off the field.

Four Carnegie Mellon University football athletes were honored with selections to the 2018 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Google Cloud Academic All-America Division III Football Team. Three were named to the first team with one to the second team, as junior defensive lineman Michael Lohmeier (Clarendon Hills, Ill./Hinsdale Central) is a repeat honoree.

ITHACA, N.Y. – On Monday morning, December 10, senior Pat Minogue of the Ithaca College football program was named Division III First-Team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) as a linebacker. Minogue becomes just the 15th player in the football program’s history to be named an All-American by the AFCA and the first since 2000.

ITHACA, N.Y. – On Monday evening, five members of the Ithaca College football program were named All-East Region by D3football.com. Senior Pat Minogue was a first-team selection as a safety, while junior wide receiver Will Gladney and senior cornerback Jovonte Long received second-team selections. Senior offensive lineman Bobby Puckey and defensive tackle Brien Pacholec rounded out the voting as third-team honorees.

One week after tickets went on sale for Cortaca Jug 2019 in MetLife Stadium, SUNY Cortland and Ithaca College are already more than halfway toward setting a new national attendance record for a Division III football game.

The No. 5 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team forced four turnovers and took advantage of a pair of big plays on special teams Saturday during a 26-12 victory over No. 11 Bethel (Minn.) in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Championship at Perkins Stadium.

Junior Anthony Williams (Purcellville, Va./Woodgrove) recorded another pair of interceptions and junior Calvin Whitehead (Richmond, Va./Hermitage) had nine tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss, as the Randolph-Macon football team dropped a 35-6 decision at No. 23 Muhlenberg Saturday afternoon in the second round of the NCAA Championship.